The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

De LEON, recently convicted Of KIDNAPPING
and sending women to Panama for immoral
purposes, was sentenced to fifteen years.
Imprisonment at New York.
THE Limerick Qreland) municipal conn
Gil has refused to celebrate the Queens
jubilee on the ground that the Queen has
visited ireland only twice, and never as
sisted Irish charities.
IT was recently telegraphed that gener-
al strike would be ordered of the Reading
railroad coal handlers at Port Richmond.
The committee from the New York strikers
had visited the coal handlers there, and
from statements made by the men, it is ex-
pected that a uniform movement will be in
augurated along the entire line and at all
the mines
INTELLIGENCE reached Belvedere, n. j.,
on the Sd by messengers from Pahaquarry
township, of the formation OF an immense
ice gorge In the Delaware river near Shaw
nee Pa, above the Delaware water gap.
The ice piling up to the height of fifty feet
the water had been forced out of its natural
course and had overflowed the lowlands.
Dwelling houses were submerged.
A DISPATCH from Carthage, Tenn, Of the
Sd said that Chestnut Mound, ten miles
above there, had been visited by water
spout, which carried death and destruction
in its wake and almost ruined that section
of the country.
LATE intelligence from st. Johns, Ariz.,
stated that John and Henry Brown and
"Red" Murphy, the remainder of the gang
of train wreckers, had been captured and
lodged in jail.
A SPECIAL from Raleigh, N. c., stated that
DR.. Wilcox, leading Republican, and John
Baker, a leading Democrat. recently met
and agreed to settle their difficulties, caused
by the campaign last fall, by stepping of
fifteen PAGES and shooting at one another
Baker was mortally wounded.
TALBOT, who recently stole Fanny Dav'
enport's diamonds, valued at S35, 600, from a
hotel in Memphis, Tenn, was captured IL
Kansas City, Mo.
A SCHOOL house at st. Emonique, near
Montreal, Can, was destroyed by fire the
other night and four young girls who were
| in it perished in the flames.
A RECENT Pittsburgh, Pa, dispatch stated
| that Detectives Hohne and Haligan, OF
| Cleveland, left there, having in charge
Henry McMunn, charged with completely
| in an extensive fur robbery. When the
train reached Alliance five men got or
board and they made concerted attack on
the prisoner A desperate fight ensued
and one of the detectives was fatally shot
and the other wounded. Some of the assall
ants were also wounded.
A RECENT dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa
stated that five coal firms along the Monon
gahela river had conceded the demands OF
their employees and were in active opera
ton.
WILLIAM CoMsToCK, the oldest convict in
the Auburn IN. " penitentiary, died re-
| Gently. He was received at the prison in
1853 on life sentence for murder. He killed
his father and mother, cut out their hearts
| and ate them.
THE strike at New York was still grow.
| ing on the 4th, the coal cart drivers and
shovelers along the Gowanus canal having
| struck.
A LONDON cablegram lately said that even
| if there should be no war between France
and Germany. the incidents which had al
ready happened in consequence of the ac-
tive rumors of war have created such a
marked feeling of distrust throughout the
country and SO paralyzed every thing in the
way of commerce, industrial and financial
enterprises that it would take France at
least two years to recover the shock " hich
she had already received.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, in reply to a
toast at the annual banquet of the Amherst
Alumni Association the other night, de-
nounced the Knights of Labor.
News from Fargo, OAK, stated that the
blizzard on the 4th between that city and
jamestown was the worst ever experienced,
the thermometer ranging twenty-five to
thirty degrees below zero. A train from
the east with four engines attached was un-
able to work its way through the snow
drifts, and numerous settlers were reported
lost on the prairie.